16 May 2006
One Utama
I love shopping in Malaysia! We went to a shopping mall that I've never ever been to before. It's even bigger than the Megamall! There's a sort of rainforesty bit and apparently the biggest indoor rock climbing facility in Asia.
1 Utama is huge. We spent 3 hours there and still managed to miss a whole section. Bought 3 T-shirts for less than GBP12, two of them discounted by 50% and 30%. It's just great and if it wasn't for my bad ankle I'd have probably bought a whole heap more.
We ate at a place called Dragon-i that specialises in hand pulled noodles and other mainland Chinese staples (dumplings and the like). One of the chefs there holds the world record for the number of noodles he can pull in a minute. It's quite cool cos you can watch them pulling said noodles as you eat.
On to shopping malls new tomorrow.
Had a 10 course Chinese meal for Ma's birthday. We were struggling rather as there were only 5 of us and the meal was for 6 people. Started with 1/2 a suckling pig, went onto Shark's Fin soup (against our better judgement), abalone, Chinese mushrooms and siu pak choi, prawns cooked in two ways (chill and salt/sweet chilli), huge giant steamed garoupa, tasty curry leaf/oatmeal crabs, pineapple fried rice, boiled papaya & snow fungus sweet soup and Chinese pastries (char siu so & coconut/pandan jelly). We pretty much gave up when we got to the crab - there was a lot to put in a doggy bag. The good thing is that we won't have to eat out/cook for several days.
1 Utama is huge. We spent 3 hours there and still managed to miss a whole section. Bought 3 T-shirts for less than GBP12, two of them discounted by 50% and 30%. It's just great and if it wasn't for my bad ankle I'd have probably bought a whole heap more.
We ate at a place called Dragon-i that specialises in hand pulled noodles and other mainland Chinese staples (dumplings and the like). One of the chefs there holds the world record for the number of noodles he can pull in a minute. It's quite cool cos you can watch them pulling said noodles as you eat.
On to shopping malls new tomorrow.
Had a 10 course Chinese meal for Ma's birthday. We were struggling rather as there were only 5 of us and the meal was for 6 people. Started with 1/2 a suckling pig, went onto Shark's Fin soup (against our better judgement), abalone, Chinese mushrooms and siu pak choi, prawns cooked in two ways (chill and salt/sweet chilli), huge giant steamed garoupa, tasty curry leaf/oatmeal crabs, pineapple fried rice, boiled papaya & snow fungus sweet soup and Chinese pastries (char siu so & coconut/pandan jelly). We pretty much gave up when we got to the crab - there was a lot to put in a doggy bag. The good thing is that we won't have to eat out/cook for several days.
Labels: food, restaurants, shopping
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